 Give a man this taste and a means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books.  Papers and Proceedings - Сторінка 81автори: American Library Association. Conference - 1889Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | 1878 - 446 стор.
...reading. Give a man this taste and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his hands...a most perverse selection of books. You place him THE COMMON SCHOOL TEACHER. in contact with the best society in every period of history — with the... | |
 | Wisconsin - 1876 - 1182 стор.
...might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. Give a man this taste and you place him in contact with the best society in every period of history — with the wisest and the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the finest characters which have adorned humanity.... | |
 | Frederic Beecher Perkins - 1877 - 388 стор.
...and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. . . . Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of...period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen... | |
 | John Francis Xavier O'Conor - 1885 - 64 стор.
...gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, youput into his hand a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period in history — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest and the purest characters,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 стор.
...taste and the means of gratifying it, and you can . hardly fail of making him a happy man; ualess, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact u'ith the best society of every period, — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest,... | |
 | Annie H. Ryder - 1886 - 200 стор.
...reading. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his hands...period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest char acters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen... | |
 | 1892 - 652 стор.
...Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a ihappy man : unless indeed, you put into his hands a most...period of history, — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1886 - 1318 стор.
...avoid the society of fools." Give a man the taste for good reading and the means for gratifying it, and you place him in contact with the best society in every period of history. When one book has become a friend, the world has grown that much broader and more beautiful. Books... | |
 | Melvil Dewey - 1886 - 324 стор.
...amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of...in every period of history — with the wisest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen... | |
 | Melvil Dewey - 1886 - 324 стор.
...frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying ir, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless,...in every period of history — with the wisest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen... | |
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